NH chapter of Fix The Debt redoubles efforts

With the so-called fiscal cliff averted, yet a debt-ceiling vote looming, local leaders of the group Fix The Debt are trying to increase local pressure on Washington to come to some type of long-term solution on the nation's debt.

First, Senate President Peter Bragdon, R-Milford, has joined the effort as a steering committee member. Second, the group will host Honeywell CEO David Cote for a discussion about the nation's debt at the St. Anselm College New Hampshire Institute of Politics on Feb. 11.

And on Wednesday, the group arranged for current state Sen. Lou D'Allesandro, D-Manchester, and former state Sen. Gary Lambert, R-Nashua, to discuss the need for Washington representatives to work together in a bipartisan way the way they say they did in Concord.

"The key word here is compromise," said D'Allesandro. "We don't seem to have much of that in Washington these days."

Lambert said he was disappointed that former U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta, R-Manchester, voted against the fiscal cliff deal earlier this month, but praised his two fellow Republicans, former U.S. Rep. Charlie Bass, R-Peterborough, and U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-Nashua, for voting for it.

D'Allesandro acknowledged that his voice is just one of many and that whatever happens will take place in Washington and not in Concord, where he has more power.

"The point of this whole effort is to get more voices to demand that our leaders do what's best for the country," D'Allesandro said.

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